SCSI Zip drive

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I've got a cable harness for the AppleDisplayUnit™ that's braided Power,Video, ADB, 10bT and PhoneNet with Router and Bridge on a four way ADB/Video switchbox leading to the OmniView Mac/PC selector. I haven't hooked up Networking since moving almost seven years ago. SneakerNet/Zip is just soooo much easier for anything I really need to do. Then again, consider the fact that I despise networking. :

 

[EvieSigma]

Does anyone here know if a 2GB Jaz drive can use 1GB Jaz disks? I finally tested the one I got from a thrift store and it works, but all I can find online are 1GB disks.

 

[Cory5412]

It looks like they can.

Update/sidenote: I was reading a review of the Zip250 drive in the April 1999 issue of MacWorld. They generally liked the drive, but they did mention that using a Zip250 drive to manipulate 100MB media is slower by a measurable and perhaps noticeable amount (it was like 10 or 20%) than using a 100MB mechanism to do so.

If you have good working Zip100 drives and media, and you don't plan on migrating entirely to 250, then I only personally recommend getting and using a 250 in any primary capacity if you are utterly and direly desperate for a mechanism, and there are no 100s to be found anywhere.

Given that much less common drives can be had in spades on eBay, I'm guessing this isn't going to happen.

 

[Bunsen]

move this discussion into Peripherals

Done.

 

[reukiodo]

Does anyone here know if a 2GB Jaz drive can use 1GB Jaz disks? I finally tested the one I got from a thrift store and it works, but all I can find online are 1GB disks.

They very much in fact do. I have several 'recovery' disks of both 1G and 2G size with an external SCSI drive to boot a variety of Macs.

 

[bibilit]

Yes, 1 Gb disks are ok for 2 Gb drives.